The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Lafayette County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-05-20 near Oxford.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Mississippi. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-04-28, around Abbeville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lafayette County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 34 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 21 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 11 days since 2022, against 0.8 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Lafayette County: all 21 hail days on record topped out below that. 6 of the 21 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Oxford -- 8 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Tula (5), Taylor (5), Abbeville (4) and Springdale (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Paris on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Tula | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Taylor | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 W Oxford | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Abbeville | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 SSE Burgess | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June, November and December, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 5 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Abbeville. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-20 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-27 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-24 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.25″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Yellow is about an inch, red 1.5 to 2″, purple 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Yalobusha County (15 hail days), Panola County (24) and Pontotoc County (20). Lafayette County sits in between.
Yalobusha County · Panola County · Pontotoc County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lafayette County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.